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Re: Shooting at Canadian Parlament

black on black crime in the USA skews our numbers. Whites in America have lower rates of violent gun crime than whites in many nations that have idiotic anti gun policies

And so freaking what? Are blacks not Americans as well? How about removing violence on homosexuals as well while you are at it? Or wife beatings? That will lower the crime statistics as well! How about leaving out the Latino crime statistics as well?

No this is typical right wing racism... news flash.. their race is irrelevant, they are Americans and part of your statistical base. Want to do something about it.. stop the GOP racist attitudes that are becoming more and more main stream.

Re: Shooting at Canadian Parlament

Originally Posted by PeteEU

And so freaking what? Are blacks not Americans as well? How about removing violence on homosexuals as well while you are at it? Or wife beatings? That will lower the crime statistics as well! How about leaving out the Latino crime statistics as well?

No this is typical right wing racism... news flash.. their race is irrelevant, they are Americans and part of your statistical base. Want to do something about it.. stop the GOP racist attitudes that are becoming more and more main stream.

Re: Shooting at Canadian Parlament

Secondly comparing the U.S. on anything gun related, to other western countries does not make sense.

With less than 5% of the world's population, the United States is home to roughly 35–50 per cent of the world's civilian-owned guns, heavily skewing the global geography of firearms and any relative comparison

% of homicides by firearm: Canada 32 United States 60
Number of homicides by firearm: Canada 173 United States 9146
Homicide by firearm rate per 100,000 pop: Canada 0.51 United States 2.97
Rank by rate of ownership Canada: 13 United States 1

Average firearms per 100 people: Canada 30.8 United States 88.8
Average total all civilian firearms: Canada 9950000 United States 270000000

Re: Shooting at Canadian Parlament

Originally Posted by rjay

Firstly, I have no idea where those statistics came from, do you?

Secondly comparing the U.S. on anything gun related, to other western countries does not make sense.

% of homicides by firearm: Canada 32 United States 60
Number of homicides by firearm: Canada 173 United States 9146
Homicide by firearm rate per 100,000 pop: Canada 0.51 United States 2.97
Rank by rate of ownership Canada: 13 United States 1

Average firearms per 100 people: Canada 30.8 United States 88.8
Average total all civilian firearms: Canada 9950000 United States 270000000